ProtAnt : A tool for analysing the prototypicality of texts

Anthony, Laurence and Baker, Paul (2015) ProtAnt : A tool for analysing the prototypicality of texts. International Journal of Corpus Linguistics, 20 (3). pp. 273-292. ISSN 1384-6655

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Abstract

Corpus-based researchers and traditional qualitative researchers, such as those interested in critical discourse analysis, are often required to select prototypical texts for close reading that include the language features of interest that are present in a much larger corpus. Traditional approaches to this selection procedure have been largely ad hoc. In this paper, we offer a more principled way of selecting texts for close reading based on a ranking of texts in terms of the number of keywords they contain. To facilitate this analysis, we have developed a multiplatform, freeware software tool called ProtAnt that analyses the texts, generates a ranked list of keywords based on statistical significance and effect size, and then orders the texts by the number of keywords in them. We describe various experiments that demonstrate the ProtAnt analysis is effective not only at identifying prototypical texts, but also identifying outlier texts that may need to be removed from a target corpus.

Item Type:
Journal Article
Journal or Publication Title:
International Journal of Corpus Linguistics
Uncontrolled Keywords:
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Subjects:
?? critical discourse analysiskeywordsprotantprototypicalityqualitative researchlanguage and linguisticslinguistics and language ??
ID Code:
153820
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Deposited On:
18 May 2021 08:58
Refereed?:
Yes
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Published
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07 Nov 2023 23:49